Second-round pick Quincy Miller signed with the Nuggets today, giving the squad 15 players heading into training camp, which opens on Oct. 2.

It’s understood that on this deep Nuggets team, the 19 year old will likely spend some time in the D-League this season. But the plan is to have the Baylor product in camp and let him develop with Denver’s assistants as much as possible.

The 6-9, 210-pound forward, was the 38th overall selection in the draft, after being named the 2011-12 Big 12 Co-Freshman of the Year. He averaged 10.6 points and 4.9 rebounds in 37 games, helping the Bears reach the Elite Eight.

This is cool. For years, Nuggets executive Masai Ujiri has been involved with Basketball Without Borders, an NBA initiative to expand the game in Africa. Well now, Nuggets center Timofey Mozgov will be part of a similar initiative in his native Russia.

Mozzy will join fellow Bronze medalist Andrei Kirilenko in Moscow from Sept. 13-16 in efforts to, as the NBA’s press release explained, “Use the sport to create positive social change in the areas of education and health and wellness.”

The NBA’s Basketball Without Borders is expanding into Europe and one of its facets is camps for up to 50 of the most talented players in each country (and they’re going into 25 countries).

Chris Dempsey arrived at The Denver Post in Dec. 2003 after seven years at the Boulder Daily Camera, where he primarily covered the University of Colorado football and men's basketball teams. A University of Colorado-Boulder alumnus, Dempsey covers the Nuggets and also chips in on college sports.

Nicki Jhabvala is the Sports Digital News Editor for The Denver Post. Before arriving in Denver, she spent five years at Sports Illustrated working primarily as its online NBA editor, and she was most recently the overnight home page editor at the New York Times.